This is a computer science engineering quiz on the operating systems, which includes questions on the Linux system which is a type of open-source operating system.
Which one of the following bootloader is not used by linux?
Which one is true for unconditional disk formatting?
What is the function of radio button?
Linux uses a time-sharing algorithm ___________.
To pair preemptive scheduling between multiple processes
For tasks where absolute priorities are more important than fairness
All of the mentioned
None of the mentioned
The first linux kernel which supports the SMP hardware?
Linux 0.1
Linux 1.0
Linux 1.2
Linux 2.0
Which one of the following linux file system does not support journaling feature?
Ext2
Ext3
Ext4
None of the mentioned
Which binary format is supported by linux?
a.out
Elf
both a.out and ELF
None of the mentioned
The most recent version of MAC OS is based on the ...... operating system.
Windows
Linux
Unix
CMOS
In Windows, start button is used to______.
Run applications
Device setting
Turn off the system
All of above
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Paste
Copy
Transfer
None of the above
A thread is also called ___________.
Light Weight Process(LWP)
Heavy Weight Process(HWP)
Process
None of the mentioned
A thread shares its resources(like data section, code section, open files, signals) with ___________.
Other process similar to the one that the thread belongs to
Other threads that belong to similar processes
Other threads that belong to the same process
All of the mentioned
A heavy weight process ___________.
Has multiple threads of execution
Has a single thread of execution
Can have multiple or a single thread for execution
None of the mentioned
A process having multiple threads of control implies ___________.
It can do more than one task at a time
It can do only one task at a time, but much faster
It has to use only one thread per process
None of the mentioned
Resource sharing helps ___________.
Share the memory and resources of the process to which the threads belong
An application have several different threads of activity all within the same address space
Reduce the address space that a process could potentially use
All of the mentioned